GPS woes on Marshmallow - E 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all,
Moto E 2015 Surnia (XT1526) here. I've been on a stock 5.1 ROM for a while. Was bored and flashed a 6.0.1 ROM, set up, runs smooth as butter, etc.
One thing I noticed is GPS is VERY wonky. In a navigation app (waze) when driving, sometimes it has me off to the right, to the left, which makes it go off route if theres an exit and re route. Also when stopped, it turns 180 degrees, then back, making it re route. I thought it was the magnetic mount I had, lack of sky visibility, nope.. I re positioned with no luck.
I never thought it was coincidental, thought maybe my phone was broken or over heated.
Low and behold. Flashed back to a 5.1 ROM and no more issues, and rock solid GPS. My guess since there were never official 6.0 firmwares/drivers, being the issue.
Anyone have recommendations? Is there a ROM out there (6.0.1) that may specifically have a GPS fix? The main purpose for my Moto E is being a GPS. Or anyone using Waze on a Marshmallow ROM on XT1526 with no issues?
Thanks!

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bigblueshock said:
Hello all,
Moto E 2015 Surnia (XT1526) here. I've been on a stock 5.1 ROM for a while. Was bored and flashed a 6.0.1 ROM, set up, runs smooth as butter, etc.
One thing I noticed is GPS is VERY wonky. In a navigation app (waze) when driving, sometimes it has me off to the right, to the left, which makes it go off route if theres an exit and re route. Also when stopped, it turns 180 degrees, then back, making it re route. I thought it was the magnetic mount I had, lack of sky visibility, nope.. I re positioned with no luck.
I never thought it was coincidental, thought maybe my phone was broken or over heated.
Low and behold. Flashed back to a 5.1 ROM and no more issues, and rock solid GPS. My guess since there were never official 6.0 firmwares/drivers, being the issue.
Anyone have recommendations? Is there a ROM out there (6.0.1) that may specifically have a GPS fix? The main purpose for my Moto E is being a GPS. Or anyone using Waze on a Marshmallow ROM on XT1526 with no issues?
Thanks!
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Weird. Moto E GPS (on any ROM ) has been fantastic for me -I routinely get 5m or better accuracy. Been on MM ROMs basically since I've had the device.
I'm currently running slim6 (build just before most recent ). Not currently using it as a daily driver, so the first pic below is from an ice cold gps start (zero use since clean flash, and no data connection for agps ). Took about 3 minutes to get a lock, stationary, inside my house with metal roof. Second shot is after turning data on for agps - a couple seconds to reestablish lock, maybe 30 seconds to that accuracy. Stale notifications still popping in from data being turned on.
Maybe try playing with gps toolbox app from play store to see if that helps? There's certainly nothing inherent in MM ROMs that breaks gps on this device.
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dandrumheller said:
Weird. Moto E GPS (on any ROM ) has been fantastic for me -I routinely get 5m or better accuracy. Been on MM ROMs basically since I've had the device.
I'm currently running slim6 (build just before most recent ). Not currently using it as a daily driver, so the first pic below is from an ice cold gps start (zero use since clean flash, and no data connection for agps ). Took about 3 minutes to get a lock, stationary, inside my house with metal roof. Second shot is after turning data on for agps - a couple seconds to reestablish lock, maybe 30 seconds to that accuracy. Stale notifications still popping in from data being turned on.
Maybe try playing with gps toolbox app from play store to see if that helps? There's certainly nothing inherent in MM ROMs that breaks gps on this device.
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Thanks for the reply.
I was actually the MM ROM is was on. I tried a CM based one and it works great now.
I thought for sure it was because our phone had no compass.

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bigblueshock said:
Thanks for the reply.
I was actually the MM ROM is was on. I tried a CM based one and it works great now.
I thought for sure it was because our phone had no compass.
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I'm fairly certain the only time compass gets used in nav apps is to determine (or try to determine ) what direction the user is facing when stationary - even on devices with a compass, gps track is used to determine that when in motion.
Glad it's working for you now.
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